Friday, October 31, 2014

With four days to go before
Election Day, there is a palpable hope that control of the Senate will change
hands. The Democrats have had control of
the Senate since 2006—eight years of purgatory for the American people.

The
obstacle to bipartisan cooperation, Harry Reid has “piles of bills waiting
for attention that could help Americans with jobs and help move the economy
forward.” Blocking GOP proposal after
proposal after proposal, Reid has deliberately avoided tough votes that would
embarrass The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer.

His
strategy may have backfired. Some are
saying that not taking up GOP amendments gave embattled Democrats few chances
to break with the president. Their
lockstep allegiance isn’t playing well and may portend a disastrous day at the
ballot box. Reid’s stifling hold on the
Senate shaped the records they are defending this midterm.

Roll
Call, which
covers Capitol Hill, reported this week that “all of the most vulnerable
Democrats voted with the presidentat
least 96 percent of the time on the 120 votes on whichheurged
a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ vote.” So, yeah, when
The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer said his “policies are on the
ballot, every single one of them,” you’d better believe they are.

Aaron
Blake of The
Washington Postcites the latest Harvard Institute of Politics poll
which shows that Latinos, unmarried women and young people “have soured on the
Democratic Party” and favor a GOP-controlled Senate.

Paraphrasing
Dr. Charles Krauthammer, an anemic economy, governmental incompetence and
the sense of national decline under this president and the minions in his party
are the impetus for the current disenchantment.

Stuart Rothenberg opines
that "President Barack Obama is about to do what no president has done in the
past 50 years: Have two horrible, terrible, awful midterm elections in a row."

For the past nine weeks, a
handful of conservative bloggers have taken part in a movement called Ten Buck Friday. We highlighted a different senate race each
week encouraging our readers to contribute $10 to the campaign coffers of
Republican challengers to entrenched Democrats in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado,
Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, New Hampshire and North Carolina.

In this, our final posting before
Election Day next Tuesday, our message is to ask you to volunteer by making
phone calls, talking with friends, family, co-workers and neighbors encouraging
them to exercise their right of franchise by casting their ballot. Low turnout leads to bad government. Make
sure your vote counts to prevent a theft-proof election. Let’s make this midterm a haunting experience
for Harry Reid and his messiah.

Monday, October 27, 2014

VerifiedVoting.org indicates that 34
states have a requirement that allows voters the ability to verify their vote
on a paper record or ballot.

You’re going to invest time on
November 4th to cast your vote. Please
take just a few more minutes to verify that the vote you cast is for the
candidate/party you intended. Take
a lesson from Illinois State Representative candidate Jim Moynihan who cast
his vote in early voting in Cook County.
He tried to cast a vote for himself but the machine he used cast the
vote for his opponent. The same thing happened
in a number of races when he tried to vote for a Republican and the machine
registered a vote for a Democrat.

Katie
Pavlich notes, “This machine error was visible, what about the changes
these machines are making to votes cast for Republicans that aren't visible?
How many registered voters have had their votes and participation in the
process stolen as a result of ‘faulty’ machines?”

Cook County is the cradle of
corruption. Democrats are terrified that
control of the Senate will be wrested from their control. The desperation includes dead people voting
and liberal activists in Colorado who think it’s “truly awesome” to illegally fill out discarded
ballots in favor of Democrats so votes “are put to good use.” These are just a few egregious examples. There are many, many more.

Voter fraud is something the
Democrats deny, deny, deny. Take a
moment to look at the map below. It
indicates the red and blue counties following the 2012 presidential
election. If you go to the link
it is interactive.

If your polling place is in a
blue county, you’ll want to make sure you have your vote audited. Before you head out, check out this map that
indicates the type of voting equipment your polling place will be utilizing.

Far too many states use unreliable and insecure electronic voting machines. Is yours one of them?

There’s an app for that. It’s called the Election Protection
Smartphone app. You can download it here. It allows you to confirm your registration
status, look up your polling place, review key voting rules and regulations for
your state, see what type of machine you’ll be voting on and allows you to
contact Election Protection via phone or email to report a problem.

Finally, too many people don’t
take the time to learn about candidates on the down ballot, specifically
judges. Judges become valuable tools for
a certain political party. Find out
which judge is conservative and insure that the Constitution cannot be skirted
in the manner in which it currently is.
Check the links below to find out which judicial candidate you should
cast your vote for. Don’t blow this
part.

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Seattle heads to Charlotte for
its third meeting in as many years against the Carolina Panthers. The game kicks off at 1:00 PM ET from Bank of
America Stadium and airs on CBS.

The Seahawks are 3-3 and the
Panthers are 3-3-1. Seattle’s three
losses were to the Chargers, the Cowboys and the Rams. The Steelers, Ravens and Packers have bested
the Panthers. Despite those three losses
Carolina still sits atop the NFC South.
What luck!

Seven players are out with injuries and two are questionable
starts and the Panthers’ running game is among the worst in the league. Cam Newton has been lackluster of late and I
have screamed at the TV because Coach Rivera didn’t put QB Derek Anderson in
when it became obvious that Newton was acting like a prima donna.

While it is true that “on any given Sunday, any team in the NFL
can beat any other team,” I’m not so sure about today’s contest. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love my Angry Kitties
to pluck the Seahawks, but honestly I don’t see that happening.

Everybody but everybody is predicting a Seahawks win.

The Niners have a bye week so I can’t rag on Proof and Woodsterman.
If the game becomes too painful to
watch, I’ll catch the game between Da Bears and Patriots and then wait for the
primetime game between the Packers and the Saints.

GO
ANGRY KITTIES?

And because no football post would be complete without some
pom-poms, please enjoy this photograph of Top Cat Dana.

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Alabama travels to Neyland
Stadium in Knoxville to face the Tennessee Volunteers in a game scheduled for
7:30 PM ET that will air on ESPN2.

Four years after leaving
Tennessee to become USC’s Head Coach following Pete Carrolls’ departure from
Southern Cal to coach the Seattle Seahawks there is still a palpable hatred for
Alabama’s Offensive Coordinator Lane Kiffin.

I expect there will be a lot of
commotion in the beginning of the game considering Kiffin’s mom told
CBS Sports, “I’m scared to death
for his safety…I want him to be in the press box.”

Knowing that Vols fans are going
to be on Kiffin like stink on manure, Head Coach Nick Saban has indicated
Kiffin will be on the sidelines with him during the game. The Alabama State Police, who have had a
presence protecting Bama’s coaching staff since the days of the legendary Bear
Bryant, will have their hands full I’m sure.

No. 4 Alabama is coming off its
59-0 annihilation of Texas A&M and the Vols were stung in their 34-3 loss
to Ole Miss last week. The game looks
like it will be lop-sided in favor of my beloved Crimson Tide.

Alabama has struggled on the
road. The Vols will be motivated to stop
Amari Cooper’s running game and intimidate QB Blake Sims. The season is past the halfway point and the
game has implications for a potential bowl game.

Given the emotions surrounding
Kiffin’s return to Knoxville, this should be a good game.

ROLL TIDE ROLL!

And since no football post would
be complete without pom-poms, please enjoy this photograph of a Bama beauty
twirling her baton.

Friday, October 24, 2014

The gatekeepers of the political
narrative have overwhelmingly demonstrated their liberal bias by their puny
coverage of the bad political news for Democrats this year.

The Media Research Center found that
“when Democrats were feeling good about their election prospects eight years ago,
CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and ABC’s World News aired a
combined 159 campaign stories (91 full reports and another 68 stories that
mentioned the campaign). But during the same time period this year, those same
newscasts have offered a paltry 25 stories (16 full reports and 9 mentions), a
six-to-one disparity.”

The gates of mockery were opened
on Sunday, October 19, 2014 when their messiah appeared at the Dr. Henry S.
Wise High School in Prince Georges County, Maryland.

“Democrats left nothing to chance for President Obama’s first
campaign rally of the 2014 election season Sunday evening. They arranged for
him to speak in Prince George’s County, Md., which went 90 percent for
Obama in 2012. They put him in the gymnasium of a middle school that shared a
campus with Barack Obama Elementary School, which explains the ‘We Rock at
Barack’ sweatshirts in the crowd. Some 90 percent of those in the audience
were African American—a demographic that still supports Obama to the tune of
84 percent, vs. 30 percent of white Americans.”

“The man Obama was stumping for—Maryland
gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown—has a healthy lead over his Republican
opponent in reliably Democratic Maryland and therefore had little worry about
sharing a stage with Obama. Even so, they left the presidential seal off the
lectern, and Obama remained hidden offstage while Brown addressed the crowd.”

“Yet for all those precautions,
Obama’s rare campaign appearance did not go as planned—and not only because a
man heckled him for his refusal to block more deportations. With about five
minutes to go in his 25-minute speech, about the time Obama said, ‘I’m just telling
you what you already know,’ people began to trickle out. By the time he had
finished, perhaps a few hundred had walked out on the president.”

Politico pool reporter Jennifer Epstein was dumbfounded:

After waiting a long time for a POTUS speech, don't you want to hear the whole thing? And not just take a phone pic or two and then leave?
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 19, 2014

Think it was probably trying to avoid bad traffic that the crowds streaming out of PG County Obama-Brown rally. Still, highly unusual.
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 19, 2014

Liberal-leaning
editorial cartoonist, Jimmy Marguiles, drew a cartoon
of The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer’s toxicity depicting him
walking into the Oval Office with a character dressed in a full HAZMAT suit
labeled “2014 Democratic Candidates” ushering him inside saying, “The
quarantine is just through Election Day.”

Over the past few weeks we’ve
heard TWMDCO proclaim,
“I’m not on the ballot this fall, but make no mistake; these policies are on
the ballot. Every single one of them.”

That’s a remarkably unhelpful
statement that launched clumsy attempts by Alaska’s Sen. Mark Begich, and
senatorial candidates Natalie Tennant (D-WV), Michelle Nunn (D-GA) and Alison
Lundergan Grimes (D-KY) to flee like scalded dogs from the question of whether
they voted for their messiah in 2008 and 2012.

So, what TWMDCO said rings
true. Poll after poll after poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans vehemently disagree with his
policies believing he has been galactically incompetent and his administration
scandal-ridden. Democrats across the
board have been in robotic lock-step. That’s
just what they do. So like the
numbskulls in the Geico horror commercial, they’ve made bad choices. They can now be found in a garage crammed
full of chainsaws hiding from the leader of their party.

Republicans have opposed him and
that is what should carry the day on November 4th.

In 2010, voters gave the GOP
historic victories and handed The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer a “shellacking” at
the polls. Most notable was the ouster
of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and Scott Walker’s victory in
Wisconsin.

While I am loathe to quote a
Democrat, this one from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sums up what Ten
Buck Friday is all about:

“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote
except the American people themselves—and the only way they could do this is by
not voting.”

If control of the Senate can be
wrested from the hands of Harry Reid, America may be able to secure enough
breathing room to recover from the failed presidency of The World’s Most
Dangerous Community Organizer.

If Americans are truly dissatisfied
with the direction of the country they simply must turn out at the polls. Not bothering to vote because you are
disgusted by politics guarantees the continued entrenchment of corrupt
Democrats. Rest assured they are
counting on you staying home.

Don’t kid yourself. By staying home you are doubling the value of
some diehard Democrat’s vote. Is that
what you want?

Get off your duff.
Talk with your friends, family, co-workers and scoop up five people on
Election Day and go to the polls. Stand guard over liberty and live in
dignity. We cannot afford to sit
this election out.

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Regular readers of this blog may
have noticed that blogging has been very light this week. There’s a good reason for my absence.

I have been working at the local
“Victory” office of North Carolina senatorial candidate Thom Tillis passing out
bumper stickers, buttons and campaign yard signs, making phone calls and
walking neighborhoods all in an effort to help him unseat incumbent Democrat
Senator Kay Hagan.

North Carolina has 100 counties,
of which 30 are blue. I live in one of
those blue counties.

Noting that circumstances are
eerily similar to what the nation was facing in 1980—an energy crisis, rising
gas prices, hostages being taken in the Middle East and Russia “going anywhere
it wanted to go”—Tillis said that “Reagan created a vision of optimism and the
emergence of America being great again.”

He said he is running because the
students are owed the same opportunity to believe in America and the American
Dream.

At one point Tillis referred to
the debate on Tuesday night that Hagan did not participate in. The “debate” featured an empty chair next to
him. Tillis said, “In fairness, I think
it was her best performance yet.”

Early voting begins today in my
state and I have been selected as a poll watcher. Judicial Watch discovered
a scheme by Rev. Dr. William Barber to urge those attending the 71st Annual
North Carolina NAACP Conference to “take unregistered voters to vote during the
Early Voting period and to engage in get-out-the-vote activities on Election
Day.”

NAACP’s leaders
appear willing to risk the confusion and disenfranchisement of their own
members in order to deceive a Court about common sense election integrity laws.

If the underhandedness of the
North Carolina NAACP were not enough to cause alarm, The
Winston-Salem Journal is reporting that 145 potential illegal voters
appear on the State Board of Elections voting rolls. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
beneficiaries can obtain drivers licenses but are not legally permitted to
vote. SBOE believe more ineligible
people may still remain on the voting rolls.

Jay DeLancy, Executive Director
of the Voter Integrity Project wants to know how such a large number of
non-U.S. citizens were ever registered to vote in the first place.” Speaking to Watchdog. org DeLancy said, “There is clearly a system failure here and we need the Board of
Elections and the DMV to help the Legislature and the public understand where
the problem lies.”

My job as poll watcher will be to
challenge any voter believed to be not qualified to vote in that precinct. Judges will determine whether or not the
challenge is valid.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

The 3-2-1 Panthers face the 4-2
Packers at Lambeau Field today. Kickoff
is 1:00 PM ET on Fox.

Readers of this blog are
accustomed to seeing the mascots of each team depicted in front of an image of
the stadium where the game is being played.
This was not possible this week.
Why? Green Bay doesn’t have
cheerleaders and it doesn’t have a mascot.
With that in mind, I decided to show a bulldog donning the world-famous
Cheesehead Hat® since the two teams are going to fight like cats and dogs.

My “Angry Kitties” lead the NFC
South. Green Bay is currently tied for
first place with the Lions in the NFC North.

Ever since Packers QB Aaron
Rodgers told fans to R-E-L-A-X, the team has won three straight games. The Panthers are struggling on both sides of
the ball. All the experts say today’s
game is crucial to the NFC playoff picture.

I have been a Packers fan since
1965 when they defeated Johnny Unitas and the Baltimore Colts. I have been a Packers fan since 1967 when
they beat the Cowboys 21-17 in the legendary “Ice Bowl”. I was cheering for Green Bay when Vince
Lombardi was the team’s head coach and Bart Starr was their quarterback.

Today, I’m rooting for the
Packers against my Angry Kitties. The
Panthers are celebrating their 20th year in the league. The Packers have had my heart for 49 years. I’m not a turncoat. I’m not a traitor. I am loyal and remember when football was
played by honorable men.

GO PACKERS!

And because no football post is
complete without pom-poms, here is a picture of Top Cat Samantha since Green
Bay is too chilly for cheerleaders in skimpy outfits.

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Nearly
100 lawmakers favor placing travel restrictions on persons infected with
Ebola in order to decrease the odds of entering the U.S.

At least 80 members of the House
and 20 members of the Senate have said they favor banning flights that could
carry passengers coming out of West Africa or temporarily rescind the visas of
residents of Ebola stricken nations.

Nearly every African nation has instituted
travel bans on West African countries with significant outbreaks but The
World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer won’t budge.

This past Friday, White House
Press Secretary Josh Earnest said new “Ebola Czar” Ron Klain will report to
former UN ambassador and current National Security Advisor Susan Rice.

As a reminder, Susan Rice is the
woman who went on five Sunday talk shows to lie about a YouTube™ video being
responsible for the 9/11 attack in Benghazi. She is also the same person who
said alleged Army deserter and Taliban sympathizer Bowe Bergdahl served with
honor and distinction.

I have missed the last two games
Alabama has played. The friend I was
visiting while on a recent vacay abhors football. Yours truly loves the game. And when it comes to loving football, there
is no greater love than that which The Crimson Tide imbues in me.

Today at 3:30 PM ET I will be “couch-gating”
big time as my beloved Bama takes on the Texas A&M Aggies in Tuscaloosa at
Bryant-Denny Stadium. CBS will air the
game.

The oddsmakers have Alabama as a
13.5-point favorite.

Ole Whistlebritches is full of it
over at SB
Nation. Saying “Dark times have
fallen upon the Alabama Crimson Tide, whether the faithful and the coaching
staff will admit it or not,” is sacrilege to this devout fan.

The Aggies are coming off a 35-20
defeat to Ole Miss at home. Alabama traveled to Arkansas and got a 14-13
victory over the Hogs. No matter what naysayer Ole Whistlebritches may
say Ala-by-God-bama is still in the thick of the playoff race.

QB Blake Sims is looking strong
under center and the Aggies don’t have a certain arrogant SOB at quarterback
this year. We’ve got TJ Yeldon and
Derrick Henry at running back to form the most talented duo in the country. Can you say “smashmouth”?

Roll Tide Roll!

And since no football post would
be complete without a picture of pom-poms, feast your eyes upon these Bama
lovelies.

Friday, October 17, 2014

On Wednesday, October 7th, Don
Carrington, Vice President of the John Locke Foundation, broke
the news that North Carolina Democrat Senator Kay Hagan’s husband and son
created a solar energy contracting company in August 2010, and then, using
$250,644 in federal stimulus grant funds, her husband hired that same company
to install solar panels at a building he owns.

The
company’s original application stated the total project would cost
$438,627, and said JDC would contribute “leveraged funds” amounting to
$187,983, or 43 percent of the total. As the project reached completion, however,
JDC revised the total budget downward by $114,519 and applied all the savings
to its share, keeping all the taxpayer funding.

Public records show that Green
State Power was formed seven weeks before JDC Manufacturing—a company owned in
part by Greensboro attorney Charles “Chip” Hagan III, Sen. Hagan’s husband—received
the stimulus grant for the solar project at a 300,000-square-foot facility in
Reidsville, NC.

At a Monday press conference in
Raleigh, North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Claude Pope announced that he
has asked the U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Ethics to investigate Hagan’s
involvement with the stimulus grant.

JDC Manufacturing LLC was set up
originally as a plastics recycling company, but its latest filing lists its
business as real estate ownership and management. The three managers are Kay
Hagan’s husband Charles “Chip” Hagan and Chip’s brothers John and David.

Plastic Revolutions Inc. is a
plastics recycling company that leases JDC’s building in Reidsville, which is
where the stimulus-funded energy project was installed. John Hagan is the
president and Chip Hagan is on its board.

Solardyne LLC is a solar design
and installation company that filed its articles of incorporation Aug. 9, 2010—two
days before JDC filed for the federal stimulus grant for which Solardyne performed
work. Its 2011 annual report listed the managers as Chip Hagan and his son
Tilden Hagan.

Green State Power is the current
name of Solardyne. Chip Hagan filed the name change in May 2012 with the
state’s Corporations Division. A 2013
annual report lists as managers Chip Hagan, Tilden Hagan, and Will Stewart,
Chip and Kay’s son-in-law.

When the conflict of interest
first came to light that JDC Manufacturing received grants from the stimulus, Hagan’s
campaign stressed that
everything was above board and “disputed any suggestion they have profited off
the law.”

Hagan had sought legal/ethical
advice on the issue from Washington, DC-based attorney Marc
Elias of the Perkins Coie law firm rather than going to the Senate Ethics
Committee for a legal opinion.

According
to Carrington, Hagan’s campaign spending report shows that, through the end
of June 2014, over the current campaign cycle (spanning 2013 and 2014) her
committee has paid the Perkins Coie firm $155,000.

I want to thank GrimmCreeper, a
fellow North Carolinian, for the comment
he posted today. It was his
observation that Hagan’s corruption had not sufficiently seen the light of day
that prompted me to post this information.
It should be infuriating to the voters of the Tarheel State.

On November 4th, if you like your
thief, you can keep your thief OR you
can go to the polls and fire Kay
Hagan and Harry Reid.

UPDATE 10-18-2014: The
Tillis campaign published the ad “Tucked Away” appearing in the embedded video
below. Once again, Joel Gehrke at National
Review is helping to call out the Corruptocrat in what will likely be a
devastating October Surprise.

Kay Hagan’s political future may
depend on how voters react to the story. The Super PAC, Freedom Partners Action
Fund, plans to spend at least $1 million to bring that message to TV
screens across the Tar Heel state, starting next week.

As of today, there are 18 days
left before the nation goes to the ballot box.
The latest ABCNews/Washington Post
poll shows the Democrat Party’s popularity is the weakest it has been in 30
years meaning they are “heading
into the midterm election in trouble.”

Seventy-seven percent of
Americans are worried about the economy’s future, and 57 percent say the
country has been experiencing a long-term decline in living standards; a grim
assessment for the party in power.

North Carolina is my home state
and I’ve been sweating out the contentious battle between incumbent Kay Hagan
and challenger Thom Tillis. More than
$6.5 million has been spent against Hagan and nearly $19 million opposing
Tillis according
to the Sunlight Foundation.

Hagan’s minions have repeatedly
charged that Tillis "cut $500 million" from the state's education
budget. That
charge is false.

Joel Gehrke at National
Review believes that cracks are beginning to appear in Harry Reid’s
North Carolina firewall. “North Carolina
Senator Kay Hagan’s admission that she skipped a hearing about the Islamic
State to attend a campaign fundraiser threatens to waste the $42 million that
Democrats have spent in this race to protect her candidacy and their Senate
majority.”

Tillis hammered her for that
during their last debate. Local press has also focused on how the Hagan family
has benefited from government spending programs that the senator supported,
such as the 2009 stimulus.

Current polling of the races the Ten Buck Friday bloggers have been
watching:

Arkansas: Tom Cotton leads
by 3.6 points

Colorado: Cory Gardner leads
by 3.0 points

Georgia: David Perdue leads
by 1.2 points

Iowa: Joni Ernst leads by
2.0 points

Kansas: Tie

Louisiana: Bill Cassidy
leads by 5.3 points

North Carolina: Thom Tillis
trails by 1.4 points

Each Friday between now and November 4th we are asking our
readers to consider contributing $10 to the campaign of the candidate(s) we
have highlighted that week. Make sure to mark your contribution “Ten
Buck Friday” so the candidate(s) will know the conservative
blogosphere is with them in standing guard over liberty.

If you are
unable to make a contribution, you can help the candidate(s) tremendously by
encouraging friends, family, neighbors and/or co-workers to vote. Volunteer your valuable time. Put up a campaign sign in your yard. Make sure you go to the polls. We cannot afford to sit this election
out.